What to Do

Prepare

Display the prefixes and suffixes that your students have learned so far on the board or a piece of chart paper.

Model/Instruct

1. Review the prefixes and suffixes that your students have learned so far.

Today we will learn more about prefixes and suffixes by changing sentences.

2. Choose a student to help you model how to do the activity. Complete each step together with the class.

I am going to write a sentence on my sentence strip. I’m going to make sure that at least one word in my sentence can have a prefix or a suffix added to it. Hmmm. Ok, here is my sentence: “John agrees with me.”